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Thursday, May 27, 2010

It has been a week of stashing basics .... you know, those fabrics that you use often and then without notice they are all gone. For me basics generally means dots, checks, and stripes, all in vivid colors and often with an element of white.

Simply Sweet has been around for some time, but somehow escaped my attention when they were in abundance. More readily available, and from my local patchwork stores, are these checks:

Both the green and the yellow check fabric are from a range called "A Day in the Country", an Australian owned fabric company (purchased at Patchwork House). The small and larger red checks are good quality lightweight woven fabrics purchased at Patchwork on Central Park.

And then of course there are several solids that are "must haves" in my basics stash. These are Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton Solids and from left to right they are:

Snow, White, Bone and Pearl Pink - all subtly different, and therefore a little difficult to picture correctly. All purchased from The Fabric Shack.

What are your basics?

Note to the fabric budget auditor: these fabrics were not all purchased in just one week! : )

I'll be honest and say that fabrics are expensive over here so I use a lot of IKEA sheets and fabrics which may not be of the highest quilting quality but are cheap, in some good colours and work for me!

My basic must-have is Kona cotton in white, however; all of my projects HAVE to have a solid. I've used green, purple, pink and brown... can't remember the exact shade color names, but they are musthaves. A project needs at least one solid.

My basics include tonal dots in lots of bright colors, and lately, any stripe I can find to keep on hand for bindings! We don't have a huge selection of Kona at my local Joann's, but I do usually have several colors on hand as I usually buy too much for whatever project I'm working on! I also try to keep a stash of Warm and Natural batts, as they can be difficult to find if I need one in a hurry!

Ooh, gorgeous pictures! My staples are definitely dots (I will be sad when I run out of my Kei Honeycombs...) and solids. Right now, I love Coal, Ash, Stone and Snow, and I'm slowly branching out to try and make new colors my new "neutrals". Like Parsley!